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Minister of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Dagestan Batal Batalov. Photo: http://mcxrd.ru/?id=1390760426/1390761847/1391670035&parm=gl-%3E1390760426/1390761847/1391670035/1412168837
17:59, 7 November 2014
According to the Dagestani Region Prosecutor's Office, an audit conducted at the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs revealed a theft of more than 13 million roubles.
15:14, 7 November 2014
Today, after namaz (the Friday prayer) in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, policemen detained five parishioners of the mosque located in Hungarian Fighters Street, where earlier a conflict burst out of believers with law enforcers, the edition named "Chernovik" writes, citing eyewitnesses. The reasons for the detention of believers are not reported.
15:08, 7 November 2014
The organization named "Soldiers' Mothers of Saint Petersburg" has filed a lawsuit demanding to invalidate the refusal of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide information about hospitalization of soldiers wounded in the warfare in the territory of Ukraine.
Officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic. Photo: http://07.mvd.ru/upload/site11/document_images/0UMRJ7HKoT-800x600.jpg
14:31, 7 November 2014
In the course of a special operation in the settlement of Chegem-2 (Chegem Vtoroi) in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) special division fighters have been injured by shrapnel in the blast of an improvised explosive device (IED), a law enforcement source of the republic has reported today. The health condition of one of them is grave; while the killed suspected militant has been identified.
Yashar Bagirsoy, head of the regional branch of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan. Photo: RFE/RL http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan_opposition_charged_with_faking_disability/24435360.html
12:38, 7 November 2014
In the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR), Yashar Bagirsoy, the head of the regional branch of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), reports about disappearance of Khidjran Gasymov, a local activist of the opposition organization. Bagirsoy believes that Gasymov was detained by law enforcement bodies; however, according to his story, the police did not confirm this information.
Inscription "Police" on a body of the police car. Photo by Oleg Pchelov for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:56, 6 November 2014
The case against two operative agents of the Derbent ROVD (District Interior Division) of the MIA of Dagestan, accused of a fraud through abuse of office, has been sent to the court.
The building of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). Photo by Nina Tumanova for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:12, 6 November 2014
A Dagestani lawyer and his friend are suspected of sexual assault, robbery, extortion of 2 million roubles, and arms trafficking. At investigators' request the court put them into custody.
Nameplate at the entrance to the Court of Appeal of Baku. Photo http://www.kaspiy.az/news.php?id=1524
21:50, 6 November 2014
The Yasamal District Court of Baku has finished considering the lawsuit filed in the order of private accusation by Nuriya Guseinova, a former cellmate of the rights defender Leyla Yunus, against the latter's advocate Alaif Gasanov.
November 4, Moscow, a march of activists of Caucasian public and youth organizations, students and natives from Northern Caucasus, on the National Unity Day. Photo by Zulfiya Akhmadova
20:35, 6 November 2014
Most of the users of social networks questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent have treated negatively the "Caucasian March", held in Moscow on the National Unity Day, calling it "unnatural" and treating the participation in it of Caucasian natives as humiliating.
Presidential Administration of Georgia. Photo by Alexander Imedashvili, NEWSGEORGIA http://newsgeorgia.ru/politics/20141106/217112290.html
19:19, 6 November 2014
The resignation of Irakli Alasaniya from the post of Minister of Defence and his announcement about the withdrawal of his party "Free Democrats" from the ruling coalition have resulted of the attempts to correct the country's pro-Western course, Georgian political analysts believe.
Banner in front of the entrance to the kindergarten. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the "Caucasian Knot"
18:29, 6 November 2014
The Makhachkala babysitting "Happy Child" Centre, which was suspended by law enforcers, was reopened on Thursday. Earlier, power agents made another check of the centre, saying they did not receive information about the permit to reopen the preschool facility.
12:35, 6 November 2014
On Thursday, in Baku, the apartment of Djavakhir Akhundova, the mother of rights activist Gulnara Akhundova, who is now living abroad, was searched.
Fueling a car. Photo by Oleg Pchelov for the "Caucasian Knot"
09:27, 6 November 2014
Ingush policemen are conduction their operative activities aimed to find and detain the man who had opened fire in the city of Nazran.
Denga Khalidov, the Adviser of the Dagestani leader, and the participant of the action Mamatkha Baysultanov. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the "Caucasian Knot"
07:46, 6 November 2014
The hunger strike of public activists who demand resignation of Ramazan Abdulatipov continues in Makhachkala. The protesters intend to go on until their demands are satisfied.
View of Makhachkala from the top of the National Library of the Republic of Dagestan. Photo: Saaduev Zidan, http://photogoroda.com/photo-goroda-Maxachkala-photo-city-3658.html#.VFsVBMldBmd
05:23, 6 November 2014
The human rights activist Albina Magomedova states that power agents broke into her household in Makhachkala; and that she fears for her life and lives of her relatives.
The mosque located in Hungarian Fighters Street is cordoned off by the law enforcers who try to detain the mosque-goers. Makhachkala, October 31, 2014. Screenshot of a video by the "Caucasian Knot" http://www.youtube.com/
19:30, 5 November 2014
The advocate of Rasul Magomedkadiev, accused of riots outside a mosque in Makhachkala has appealed against the arrest of his client. The detainee’s wife has stated a violation of his rights by law enforcers.
18:29, 5 November 2014
The lawyer Khalid Bagirov has been removed from defending the rights of the arrested rights defender Leyla Yunus. This investigator's decision is aimed at weakening her defence, said the lawyer.
Levan Dolidze. Photo mod.gov.ge
18:11, 5 November 2014
Levan Dolidze, the Georgia's representative at the NATO, resigns in the context of the events around surrounding the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Bust of the first president of Abkhazia Vladislav Ardzinba in the Abkhazian State Museum. Sukhumi. Photo by Grigory Shvedov for the "Caucasian Knot"
15:31, 5 November 2014
The participants of the Eighth Festival of Documentary Films and Author's TV Programmes of Northern Caucasus "Kunaki" (Friends), which is held in Abkhazia, have discussed at a roundtable the participation of natives of Northern and Southern Caucasus in World War I as soldiers of the so-called "Wild Division".
Special operation. Photo http://nac.gov.ru/
15:04, 5 November 2014
In the course of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in the Chegem District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), a blast of an improvised explosive device (IED) wounded four law enforcers.
LEGAL TEXTS
The illustration was created by the Caucasian Knot using AI The peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as other documents signed at the meeting with Trump on August 8, 2025

The “Caucasian Knot" publishes the agreement on the establishment of peace and interstate relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which was initialed by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on August 8, 2025, through the mediation of US President Donald Trump. The meeting of Trump, Aliyev and Pashinyan took place on August 8 in Washington. Following the meeting, Pashinyan and Aliyev also signed a joint declaration. In addition to the agreements between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Trump signed a number of separate memoranda with Aliyev and Pashinyan....

Personalities
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Photo courtesy of press service of HRC 'Memorial', http://memohrc.org/ Zelimkhan Khangoshvili

A participant of the second Chechen military campaign, one of the field commanders close to Shamil Basaev and Aslan Maskhadov. Shot dead in Berlin in 2019.

Magomed Daudov. Photo: screenshot of the video http://video.agaclip.com/w=atDtPvLYH9o Magomed Daudov

Magomed "Lord" Daudov is a former Chechen militant who was awarded the title of "Hero of Russia", the chairman of the Chechen parliament under Ramzan Kadyrov.

Tumso Abdurakhmanov. Screenshot from video posted by Abu-Saddam Shishani [LIVE] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIR3s7AB0Uw Tumso Abdurakhmanov

Tumso Abdurakhmanov is a blogger from Chechnya. After a conflict with Ramzan Kadyrov's relative, he left the republic and went first to Georgia, and then to Poland, where he is trying to get political asylum.